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On the wisdom of ancient laws


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2020 Mar 25, 9:17am   694 views  5 comments

by Patrick   ➕follow (55)   💰tip   ignore  

Note that Jewish law has very clear rules about what animals may be eaten, and bats and pangolins are definitely not kosher.

There is also a law that one must wash hands before eating. Jesus referred to these laws:

Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.


Poetic, but maybe Jesus was not completely correct about this one, or should have been clearer.

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1   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2020 Mar 25, 9:30am  

I don't believe this came from Bats or Pangolins.

An exotic animal fits the Scary Clown in the Woods psyops that this whole operation is.

There would have gave a collective yawn if they said it came from a cow, chicken or pig.

But patient zero Zombies originating from an exotic animal bite, is firmly baked into our psyche and conscious.

They've been eating bats for thousands of years, it's not a new snack for them.
2   Shaman   2020 Mar 25, 9:39am  

Jewish dietary laws fit neatly into the “primer for ignorant school children” theory of the purpose of these commandments. Long before the advent of science, nutrition, disease vectors, and biology, Jews had these laws to keep them safe from eating contaminated meat. So it was a very effective way to keep the Jewish population free from foodborn illness.
We know slightly more now than they did in the Bronze Age.
3   Patrick   2020 Mar 25, 12:51pm  

True, and through shrimp are not kosher, they are probably OK to eat. Maybe "red tides" affect them.

Anyway, the point is that we are not the first to deal with these problems. We should not be too arrogant to learn from the past, even the distant past.
4   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2020 Mar 25, 12:59pm  

Patrick says
True, and through shrimp are not kosher, they are probably OK to eat. Maybe "red tides" affect them.

Anyway, the point is that we are not the first to deal with these problems. We should not be too arrogant to learn from the past, even the distant past.


I agree. We seem to forget lessons and relearn then the hard way. Food, behavior, relationships, sexuality... thousands of years of human wisdom gets easily dismissed as “fairy tales”. Tragic.
5   mbSFBay   2020 Mar 25, 3:39pm  

Well, a lot of "kosher" animals have also transmitted disease (SARS - the first epidemic was transmitted by chickens and birds, MERS by camels), so I don't really see why one should pay any heed to this "wisdom".

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